Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and Cathie Jo Martin, Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at the Pardee School and Professor of Political Science at Boston University, were recently interviewed on European integration and global political […]
This event began with an introduction by Christoph Mücher, Director of the Goethe Institut Boston, who welcomed both Boston University’s Vivien Schmidt and Joachim Fritz-Vannahme, Director of the think tank Europe’s Future at the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Schmidt opened the conversation by asking the question “Why is the EU in such a mess?” and asked Fritz-Vannahme to speak […]
On Monday, October 6, the Pardee School of Global Studies kicked off its inaugural lecture series with a talk on the “Future of Europe and the EU” by former President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga. Dr. Vike-Freiberga’s lecture highlighted the EU’s successes, uniting the formerly divided continent under the banner of justice and democracy, but focused […]
EU Foreign Policy through the Lens of Discourse Analysis Leading scholars in discourse analysis and European foreign policy join force in this book, marking a real breakthrough in the literature. Not only do they offer original perspectives on European foreign policy, but they bring together various theories on foreign policy discourses that remain too often […]
On Wednesday, April 9, the Center for the Study of Europe and the Center for Finance, Law & Policy, celebrated the publication by Cambridge University Press of Resilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy, edited by Center Director Vivien Schmidt and LSE colleague Mark Thatcher. Schmidt and Thatcher were joined at Boston University by Peter Hall […]
On March 3 and 4, 2014, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with BU’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, hosted the 5th Transatlantic Dialogue on Gender Issues: Woman Up! for a New Progressive Agenda. The goal of the two-day event, sponsored by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and the […]
Join us for a panel discussion with Peter Hall and Michèle Lamont, co-editors of Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era, and Vivien Schmidt and Mark Thatcher, co-editors of Resilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy. The four panelists will take up the question of “resilience,” both the resilience of neoliberal ideas in policy debates and policy […]